Word: informality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to inform you that one of the quotations regarding deductions I learned from a Federal man is wrong...
Loyola, elected General of the Society after thrice declining, perfected such methods of discipline as encouraging Jesuits (with the highest motives) to inform on one another; to travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face...
...desire to inform you that from this day on I have decided to drop the reading of TIME. Experience again proves to me that for unprejudiced and accurate information Social Justice is the magazine...
...proud Commonwealth of Massachusetts contains the Cradle of Liberty but, like Georgia and Connecticut, it has never ratified the U. S. Bill of Rights. This startling fact was certified by Librarian Denys P. Myers of Boston to Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who last week hastened to inform his Legislature. In 1790, when Amendments I to X to the Constitution were submitted to Massachusetts for ratification, "your honorable predecessors," said Governor Saltonstall, "failed to act because they became involved in an attempt to propose even more inclusive definitions of the rights of the people." Governor Saltonstall suggested that the forefathers' oversight...
...Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...